In addition to live and catch-up video content of the Games, there is "a page for each of the 36 Olympic sports", pages for each athlete and country, medal tallies and facts, plus commentary and schedules.

According to the post by senior product manager in BBC Future Media Lucie Mclean, the team has used feedback from the previous releases in the "summer of sport" to improve the "video quality and reliability of playback".

PR of the week

In what is believed to be a world-first, Tenderlake, a London, UK-based start-up announced today the release of Tenderlake Genius, an intelligent agent that automatically learns about an organisation’s products and services by reading and analysing the organisation’s website and/or marketing materials, and then creates a steady stream of open opportunities to supply said products and services